Thrival: How to Have an Above Average Day Every Day

Joy is your birthright. And you have 18,000 to 23,000 opportunities to thrive every day. The thriving state, thrival, is as near as your next breath.

Learn to light your own fire! Practice three rules:

Awareness of awareness, direct self-acceptance,and appreciation. Explore seven guidelines for accessing the thriving state,returning to it when you lose it, and residing in that state on a daily basis.

Self-acceptance is key to thriving. However, the mere statement means little if you are not self-nourishing, and totally self-responsible, immersed in self-care.

This book provides clear guidelines for attaining a sustainable state of exceptional well-being.

The reader is advised to use a marker pen while reading this tip, tool, and technique-rich book. For, you will then be able to flip through the pages when you get down and have one of those below average days -- to bring yourself out of the slump.

Thrival is the next level for the human species, the one our ancestors worked to provide us. It moves us beyond survival concerns and ego limitations to a state of grace and peace of mind. You will develop a peaceful core with which to deal with any and all circumstances.

Dr. Paul O. Radde is a D.C. licensed psychologist, executive coack, and organizational consultant, and the principal of his international consulting company, Thrival Systems(R),now headquartered in Austin, Texas. Dr. Radde has worked for over 50 national associations, 20 major corporations, 20 government agencies, state and local entities. An inveterate problem solver, he brought this book to press after 18 writings spread over 26 years. During that time he proved out his hypotheses on what brings out the best in people in all walks of life through his therapy, consulting, and training work.

Major clients have included the Wall Street Journal, the Food and Drug Administration,the New York City Police Chiefs, the Wall Street Journal Sales Department, NASA.

He has taught at Georgetown University and the University of Texas at Austin. He also wrote two books on management:

Supervising: A Guide for all Levels, and The Supervision Transition: An Employee Guide to Choosing and Moving Into a Supervisory Position.

Paul offers Thrival! in residential spa settings and ski resorts,in-house for organizations, as well as in keynote addresses to kick-off conferences. Paul is a member of the National Speakers Association where his presentation "Get Real-Get Rich" resulted in a best selling tape casette.

Dr. Radde has lived in Chile, Mexico, and Peru,and is fluent in Spanish. He has presented internationally in Portugal, Denmark, and Russia.